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Letters .Patent No. 88,768, dated April 1'3, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN FEEDING-TROUG-H FOR HORSES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters' Patent and making part of thelame.

To allpersons to whom these presents may come:

Be it known that I, ADDISON D. BARRETT, of Gambridgepcrt, in the countyof Middlesex, and State of Massachusetts, have made a new and usefulinvention, having reference to vthe supplying of a Feeding orWatering-Trough of a horse or. otherA animal, with grain or food, orwater; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in thefollowing specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings,of which- Figure 1 denotes a top view;

Figure 2, a front elevation; and

Figure 3, an end View of the mechanism which constitutes my invention,for supplying the manger and drink receptacle ofa stall with grain andwater.

The object of my invention is to enable a horse or brute animal to beautomatically supplied with food and-drink, or either, at any time whensuch may be desirable.

. To this end, I arrange above his manger, or food and drink receptacleor receptacles, the mechanism to be hereinafter described.

In the drawings- 'A denotes a frame, forv supporting the operative partsofthe mechanism.

'Ihis frame I usually erect or place on the floor, which may be directlyover the stall or place of feeding, or it may be disposed over or aboveeither 'the food or the drink receptacle, or over both of them of suchstall. i

Within the frame, and so as to be supported by it by means of suitableboxes or bearingsa a, I arrange a horizontal shaft, B, provided at oneend with a crank, C.

To the said shaft, and so as to project from it in manner asrepresented, I fasten a hopper, D, underneath which I arrange a spout,or chute, E, to lead grain into the Ifeeding-trough, or manger, afterdischa rge of such grain by the hopper in falling from a horizontalposition.

To the said hopper, and anotherhorizontal shaft, F, I apply a pair oftoggles, or arms, G H. The lower one, Gr, of such arms extends upward,and is hinged or jointed to the lower end of the other arm. At its upperend, the arm H turns on a pin, b, going through it, and being projectedfrom 011e end of the hopper.

Another arm, I, extends up from the shaft F, so as to engage with alever latch, K, supported by the frame A, and arranged therein, inmanner as represented.

Withthis latch it is intended to use a common alarm-clock, the hammer ofthe alarm of which is to be arranged with respect to the tail of thelatch K, so that when the hammer is set in action by the mechanism oftheclock, it shall strike on the latch tail, and

depress it, in order to throw the latch ont of engagement with the armI. For this purpose the bell of the alarm-apparatus may be removed ornot, as circumstances may require.

Furthermore, on the platformlof the frame Aa tnb L, may be placed. Suchtub is to have a conduit leading from an aperture in its bottom, so asto discharge water from the tub into the drink receptacle ofthe stall.Over the mouth of the discharge-outlet of the tub, I arrange a valve, c,Shownin dotted lines, which, by means of a wire or rod, d, I connect.with an arm, e, extended from the shaft B, the same being so that whenthe hopper drops and turns its shaft, the valve shall be raised ofi' itsseat, soas to cause water, when in the tub, to be discharged therefrom.

With this mechanism, and au alarm-clock arranged with it, as described,it will be seen that the supplying of the feeding or watering-trough ofa stall with grain or water at any given time, may be effected, withoutany attention of a person, except it be to previously prepare the hopperwith the supply of grain, and the tub, with the quantity of water thatmay be required, and setting the apparatus, or mechanism so that at therequisite time, the c1ock-apparatus shall be set in operation, so as toeffect the disengagement of the latch from the arm I.

The toggles when in line, or nearly in line, with each other, will aidgreatly in supporting the hopper in its horizontal position. Theremay bea series of the hopf pers applied to one shaft, so as to effect thesupplying of food to a series of ruangers; and there may also be aseries of the water tubes, one for each stall, and with mechanism, asdescribed, for operating its valve, by the rotary motion of the shaftcaused by the descent of the hoppers.

So when the watering-apparatus alone is applied to a stall, a Weight inthe place of the hopper may be projected from the shaft B.

What, therefore, I claim as my invention, is-

The combination of the hopper D, the toggles G H, their shaft F, the armI, and the latch K, the same being for application to and use with analarm-apparatus, or clock, and with a conduit leading to a manger, orfeeding-trough, as set forth.

Also, the combination of the' tub L, its valve c, valve rod (l, andoperative arm e, with the shaft B, the hopper D, or a weight, thetoggles G H, their shaft F, the arm I, and the latch K, the said latchbeing to operate with an alarm-clock applied to it, as

and for the purpose as specified.

. ADDISON D. BARRETT.

Witnesses: l

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr.

